A History of Contemporary Chinese Art: 1949 to Present (Chinese Contemporary Art Series)

"Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical realism, then avant-garde movement, and globalized Chinese art. With a hybrid mix of Chinese philosophy, imported but revised Marxist ideology, and western humanities, Chinese artists have created an alternative approach - after a great ideological and aesthetic transition in the 1980s - toward its own contemporaneity though interacting and intertwining with the art of rest of the world. This book will investigate, from the perspective of an activist, critic, and historian who grew up prior to and participated in the great transition, and then researched and taught the subject, the evolution of Chinese art in modern and contemporary times. The volume will be a comprehensive and insightful history of the one of the most sophisticated and unparalleled artistic and cultural phenomena in the modern world."--Publisher's description Résumé éditeur : "Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical realism, then avant-garde movement, and globalized Chinese art. With a hybrid mix of Chinese philosophy, imported but revised Marxist ideology, and western humanities, Chinese artists have created an alternative approach - after a great ideological and aesthetic transition in the 1980s - toward its own contemporaneity though interacting and intertwining with the art of rest of the world. This book will investigate, from the perspective of an activist, critic, and historian who grew up prior to and participated in the great transition, and then researched and taught the subject, the evolution of Chinese art in modern and contemporary times. The volume will be a comprehensive and insightful history of the one of the most sophisticated and unparalleled artistic and cultural phenomena in the modern world." Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Visual Utopia: Art in the Seventeen Years (1949–1966) (Zhou Yan)....Pages 1-42 Anti-Culture: Art of Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) (Zhou Yan)....Pages 43-84 Truth, Virtue and Beauty: Art in the Post-Cultural Revolution (1977–1984) (Zhou Yan)....Pages 85-116 An Art Hurricane: The Avant-Garde Movement (1985–1989) (Zhou Yan)....Pages 117-265 Art Under Impact of Globalization (1989–1999) (Zhou Yan)....Pages 267-333 Institutionalization and Identity of Contemporary Art (2000-Present) (Zhou Yan)....Pages 335-458 Back Matter ....Pages 459-518